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Dekalog = The Decalogue / Bandes à Part ; Telewizja Polska ; director, Krzysztof Kieślowski ; producer, Ryszard Chutkowski ; screenplay, Krzyzstof Kieslowski, Krzysztof Piesiewicz.
LIBRA VHS PN1997 .D4215 1999 v.1-5
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Polish
- Subjects (All):
- Ten commandments--Drama.
- Ten commandments.
- Made-for-TV movies.
- Genre:
- Religious films.
- Motion pictures, Polish.
- Television mini-series.
- Video recordings.
- Drama.
- Physical Description:
- 5 videocassettes (584 min.; approximately 60 min. each) : sound, color ; 1/2 in.
- 1/2 in.
- polychrome
- Other Title:
- Decalogue
- Title on container: Krzysztof Kieslowski's The Decalogue
- Other title on container: Krzysztof Kieslowski's Decalogue
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago, IL : Facets Video, [1999]
- Language Note:
- In Polish with English subtitles.
- System Details:
- VHS; hi-fi.
- analog
- magnetic
- VHS
- Summary:
- Presents 10 short films, inspired by the Ten Commandments. Each story corresponds to a commandment and centers on different residents of the same modern Warsaw apartment complex. The themes are the universal ones of love, marriage, infidelity, parenthood, guilt, faith and compassion and focus on the complexities of human relationships.
- Contents:
- v. 1. dekalog 1. I am the Lord thy God. Thou shalt have no other God but me ; dekalog 2. Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain
- v. 2. dekalog 3. Honour the Sabbath Day ; dekalog 4. Honour thy father and thy mother
- v. 3. dekalog 5. Thou shalt not kill ; dekalog 6. Thou shalt not commit adultery
- v. 4. dekalog 7. Thou shalt not steal ; dekalog 8. Thou shalt not bear false witness
- v. 5. dekalog 9. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife ; dekalog 10. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's goods.
- Participant:
- Film I. Henryk Baranowski, Wojciech Klata, Maja Komorowska ; Film II. Krystyna Janda, Aleksander Bardini, Olgierd Lukaszewica ; Film III. Daniel Olbrychski, Maria Pakulnis, Joanna Szczepowska ; Film IV. Adrianna Biedrynska, Janusz Gajos ; Film V. Miroslaw Baka, Krzysztof Glovisz, Jan Tesarz ; Film VI. Grazyna Szapolowska, Olaf Lubaszenko ; Film VII. Anna Polony, Maja Barelkowska, Wladyslaw Kowalski ; Film VIII. Maria Koscialowska, Teresa Marczewska ; Film IX. Ewa Blaszczyk, Piotr Machalica, Artur Barcis ; Film X. Jerzy Stuhr, Zbigniew Zamachowski, Henryk Pista.
- Credits:
- Photographer, Wiesław Zdort (dekalog 1), Edward Kłosiński (dekalog 2), Piotr Sobociński (dekalog 3), Krzyztof Pakulski (dekalog 4), Sławomir Idziak (dekalog 5), Witold Adamek (dekalog 6), Dariusz Kuc (dekalog 7), Andrzej Jaroszewicz (dekalog 8), Piotr Sobociński (dekalog 9), Jacek Bławut (dekalog 10); editor, Ewa Smal; music, Zbigniew Preisner.
- Notes:
- Originally made for Polish television in 1988-1989, the series has also been screened in cinemas.
- Synopses and cast lists of individual films on container sleeves.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Sabin W. Colton, Jr., Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 1565802756
- 1565802454
- 1565802462
- 1565802470
- 1565802489
- 1565802497
- OCLC:
- 43680054
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